Big News For Ripple: Ripple Joined the Digital Euro Association 2022

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Big News For Ripple: Ripple Joined the Digital Euro Association 2022
Source: https://blog.digital-euro-association.de/

The Digital Euro Association (DEA) has established a collaboration with Ripple as a supporting partner on central bank digital currency (CBDCs).

Ripple, a prominent supplier of business blockchain and crypto solutions for cross-border payments, has recently created a blockchain-based infrastructure to enable CBDCs and is working with Bhutan’s central bank, among others, to assist them implement their CBDC pilot.

Ripple is also a member of the Digital Pound Foundation, which is working to promote CBDCs all across the globe. The DEA’s collaboration with Ripple involves cooperative educational activities surrounding digital currency and knowledge sharing, among other things.

Statement From Jonas Gross, Chairman of the Digital Euro Association

“We are thrilled that, due to the partnership with Ripple, we can extend the technological expertise of the DEA community. As more and more CBDC projects worldwide reach advanced stages, technological design of a CBDC will play a key role for policy-makers in the near future, while previous years focused primarily on research”

 Statement From James Wallis, VP of Central Bank Engagements, Ripple

“We are excited to join the Digital Euro Association as a supporting partner to further develop our work in the CBDC area. The DEA is working across Europe and global markets to drive the development and growth of CBDCs and, specifically, the Digital Euro. Ripple has invested significantly in the CBDC world, with a team of around 40 people globally, helping develop and deliver solutions for CBDCs and stablecoins. We look forward to working with the DEA to further our work on CBDCs over the next few months”

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What is the DEA?

The Digital Euro Association (DEA) is a think tank located in Frankfurt, Germany that focuses on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, crypto assets, and other forms of digital money.

It focuses on the digital euro in particular. The DEA’s aim is to contribute to public and political dialogue on digital money issues by research, education, and the creation of a forum and community for policymakers, technologists, and economists to address these issues.

The DEA is dedicated to independence and quality, with the goal of setting the agenda and shaping policy in the realm of digital money by fostering innovative ideas and forward-thinking.

What is Ripple?

Ripple is a renowned supplier of cross-border payment blockchain and crypto solutions for businesses. Ripple’s long-term goal is to allow the Internet of Value, in which the world transfers value in the same way that it moves information today.

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By engaging in a community of developers and motivating members to innovate solutions that employ the XRP Ledger, its native digital asset XRP, and associated technologies, RippleX helps to accelerate the Internet of Value.